The Warriors: Practical Decisions (For My Thug Family)

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hello geeks and welcome to another episode of smack my pitch up the podcast that reboots remakes reimagine sequel
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cycles and adapt some of your favorite and least favorite properties from film and television and what have you and as
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always i got my co-host here dandy
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that line is so iconic there are people that have never even heard of this movie that know that line
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yeah it is it's crazy it was been parodied a lot of places too you know like several generations of parody
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without context so somebody saw the parody and then the person who grew up with the parody not
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the original was parodying the parody so i i feel like it's old enough and cult classic enough that people know
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it from that like kind of like soylent green as people yeah exactly people know the line without the context and that's a feeling
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that i'm starting to get with a lot of movies that i grew up with where we were making a direct reference from the movie but then movies have now made references
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from the movies you grew up with and the younger generation are making references from the references and it's so removed
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that they're like what what do you mean batteries not included i don't know what that movie is you know there's
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there's this disconnect and yeah i guess it's pop culture hurting our feelings yeah exactly
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and this was one of those movies that it didn't quite hit the uh the popular culture of things but it
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absolutely did uh find its way into the the zeitgeist a little bit
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uh yeah very very cult classic very cold classic we're of course talking about the warriors from uh oh god when did
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this come out like 78 81 81 oh wait it's like well maybe it was because i did i did
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see something saying it was released in the late 70s but i also saw something that said it was released in 81 so it
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could have been 78 i think there's a re-release it's not a huge release so some of those movies the technical
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release date depends on where you were and uh what what you call official but
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it hit oklahoma in 81 exactly right yeah the midwest finally got to see what it was like on the tough streets
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[Laughter] yeah the the interesting conception of the tough streets uh
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walter hill the director of this did a lot of interesting tough streets conceptions uh he was the director of
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streets of fire which if you have not had the chance to see streets of fire it's
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criminally unknown like it the movie nerds know it but that's about it and it is
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incredible it's it is interesting it is interesting uh the warriors also has just some some
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things that uh borderline exploitation like crime gritty movies weren't really doing at
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the time uh like matching outfits that wasn't really yeah it's it's conception of of what
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street toughs are is uh is interesting the whole thing is very village people if you take
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every scene in an 80s movie like a popular 80s movie uh where there's like a punk on a bus or
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the subway that's like he mean give me them groceries man and he has like a
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switchblade and everybody's got a switchblade i always got a switchblade and he's like you're interested in the switchblade with your outfit and he's
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like tough punk uh that is what this movie is basically it's just a bunch of
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switchblade fighting movie and it's it's gang warfare but all the gangs are
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various theater kids right it's like if the jets and sharks invited all their other animal friends over
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to have a dance party um panthers wow yeah right
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so there's a number of different gangs in this now the basic set up this movie if you're not familiar and it's not a complicated plot so i would say that
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even if you haven't seen this i'd say check it out if you can before this recording but it's not there's no heavy twists
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that happen here that uh that you're gonna be you're gonna be ruined for you by no it's it's
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very straightforward pretty straightforward there's all these rival gangs that have been fighting in the
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streets of new york forever and there's one gang uh with one leader who is
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trying to unite the gangs they're like we are more powerful than the cops if we work together and a lot of these gangs
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are on board they're like you know what that's fair um as long as we get our cut we're good they all meet in what central park to
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have this conversation something like that something like central park have this conversation that's uh the line can you dig it comes from
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that moment it's brilliant it's it's incredible it's kind of awesome yeah yeah
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and i'm getting like revved up in those scenes whenever i watch it like even re-watching it for this episode i was
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just like oh yeah let's take on the cops [Laughter] um
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but then yeah there's there's a gang that decides that they're gonna [ __ ] with [ __ ] and they they killed dude they
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killed the the the can you dig it guys cyrus take a guy yeah he has a name i know he does uh
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it's cyrus cyrus that's right the murder immediately gets blamed on the warriors
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which are from coney island which if you are familiar with new york is very far away from
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central park it's on the other side of the city it's uh that's how you can have a
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gauntlet yeah exactly you can't have a gauntlet if it's like the next two stops over that they go that'd be like the short
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film version of the warriors where they get off like two stops down the subway they fight like one gang
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and that's it boring movie uh so yeah yeah there's there are 25
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gangs in this movie that are mentioned by name i did not go through the 25 for
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the uh yeah it's so ridiculous it is so like i know it's supposed to be gritty and
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maybe it it represents the grim and gritty of the era but it's so it's a
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silly ass it's really a silly ass movie it's silly yes it's very very silly
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it's one of those movies that somebody saw like a clockwork orange in the 70s and they're like
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gangs with costumes that's brilliant let me make it gritty so that it fits into new york city and then there's either
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the better they watched batman 66. right they're like oh look at the henchman that's great yeah imagine just a bunch
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of henchmen gangs running running around and it's just people like face paint and like matching outfits and it's very
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wonderful and it's silliness but it's not gritty really it's got a couple moments but for the most part
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so the warriors are on their way to coney island they're trying to make it home where they see it as safety and in
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the meantime uh the gramercy riffs who are the gang that are kind of organizing all the other gangs who has cyrus who
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who gets killed uh there they believe that it was the warrior's fault there's a dj that's speaking on
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the radio letting people know where the warriors might be and there's like a price on their head and everybody's trying to get the
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warriors where in reality the rogues are the gang that uh
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that killed cyrus and are responsible for it the rogues are trying to kill the warriors before the warriors can rat out
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the rogues remember because intrigue because did the
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warriors know directly before the end of the movie like other people did the the the warriors know that the rogues were
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the ones who killed sorry i don't think they did if i remember i think they did see them
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kill yeah because they were right next to the rogues that's why the rogues blamed the warriors is because the warriors saw them do it
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if i remember yeah but they never mentioned that they never mentioned that the rogues are the ones who did it until
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the end of the movie where the rogues show up and they're like they're like why'd you do it man and and i thought it was context that
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yeah no it was not mentioned before then i don't think but uh i i love the greatest excuse ever i actually do like
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this because it's like people just do dumb [ __ ] sometimes he's like we just we just felt like it like it
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wasn't politically motivated it wasn't because they disagreed with cyrus they were like we just like doing stuff like
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that yeah he's he's the i like to do bad things kid yeah great yeah he's he's the
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kid that likes to burn stuff and you're like burning stuff he was like because it's fun you're like okay cool
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yeah that dude was ridiculous that actor was ridiculous he was having so much fun in that role and i think it's part of
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the reason why this movie is a classic but with this i mean this is such a irresponsible film to try to remake
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because of the number of people that are in this it's such an ensemble piece yeah i hated that i hated that so much uh so
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much i had to take a totally different approach to my normal style of casting which then also changed kind of my ideas
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on what to do with this film so i have two [ __ ] weird choices here uh for my
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re remaking or reima definitely a reimagining of the warriors here did you
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kind of stick to i don't know like nice costumes and and grit or what
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is it a 70s period piece or did you modernize this uh so
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my film is modernized it still moves in the same way like
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if the script were beat for beat it would basically be the same movie but it's modern and the context of everything is
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completely different okay uh my context is definitely different as well uh i think
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the the like gangs thing is i don't know how that really translates to 2022
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really had to try problems with the the whole conception as well like um the big thing for me was and i don't know even
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what it's like in the modern time but there was a switchover from and this was before the warriors
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before the warriors period of time there's a switch over from street gangs being uh just a group that
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either protected their turf or their neighborhood and then might have done like stick ups and like petty larceny or
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whatever to being the protection arm of the drug trade is what street gangs
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became became more organized and more like more martial basically
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they're not the same thing like the fact that there's only one or maybe two guns in the whole movie
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just super odd to me and the fact that these gangs aren't
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organized around anything like gangs are organized around yeah turf or territory or whatever but it's around acquisition
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in the modern time it's about protecting the money coming in from the drug trade so yeah it felt like nonsense to me it
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felt like it was probably people remembering the new york of a different time
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like in new york city in the city proper i'm sure that there were like housing developments and projects and stuff
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where people of various races were kind of crowded together poor people but i feel like a lot of the white folks moved
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out of those areas way before the warriors period of time sure so you
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have gangs that are very racially centralized um like i was
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talking to my girlfriend she's from new york about what street gangs look like in her era and she's like no it was as far as is
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white people coming together to do a thing gang wise it was mostly like we hate
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the other people that live in the other areas that's what their gangs came around yeah came together around so
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yeah the white gangs were the ones that had like surprisingly short haircuts
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yeah they're like like italians or skinheads yeah yeah pretty much uh yeah that was kind of a challenge to
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figure out how to do that i think i found my lead in is that they don't i guess gangs but not like street gangs i
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is that the difference there that i did is um i'm sure yes there are still uh gangs
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there are groups of people that commit crime uh but it's not the same as it was like
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this movie portrays like it was in the 70s or the 80s it's it's a survival tactic and also like not
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something that i really want to sensationalize in that way and well you know the book was written in the mid 60s and it's probably based off
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of a conception of gangs from like the fifth from the fonzier because you know fonzie was basically in a street gang a
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so it is it's based on a conception that is rooted in even an even older
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conception of what street gangs and gang crime is sure when you're looking
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at post-world war ii there were a lot of uh soldiers that came back from the war that felt kind of directionless and
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also had that taste of like normal life just didn't really fit into their experience anymore and so that's when
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the birth of like biker culture bikers yeah and you're seeing a lot of people like um
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picking up all the what they have and going on the road and joining other bikers and getting by
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through yeah drug trade was a big part of it um arms dealing was a big part of it
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and uh that fed into gangs in general to have some sort of like affiliation
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uh but yeah that that was by the 70s and 80s that level of like having a brand
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uh got to at best having like a common color that was like to represent who you
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affiliate with but besides that it was not some you know stenciling logos on backs of jackets and [ __ ] like that was
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not unless you were a hell's angel but by then it was like an incorporated brand
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sure the hell's angels by the 70s the hells angels were literally but literally did security for
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a rolling stones concert so that's uh it's different animal uh not
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to say that they there weren't still and still are some things probably going on in that
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realm that are uh not not exactly above board but oh they controlled the meth trade back then um but yeah they i mean
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the the guys in the gang got older it became no longer just a street gang you got to make practical decisions for your
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thug family yeah exactly practical decisions for my thug family yes um
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so for mine i i'm just gonna dive into mine because uh it shouldn't take too long there's a lot
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a lot of names to list but uh i decided instead of casting in the way that i normally do where it's the main
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characters going through and just hitting seven of the you know most important
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characters it was the different groups that were kind of important in this like swan is important he's the leader of the
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warriors and all that but like he's he's not that important you know like the the the gang is the important
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part their their affiliation together how they fight together and so i thought yeah how can i incorporate
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groups of people that i we know that are familiar with one another in a way that
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they're the different gangs and then i started thinking about anchorman uh and the famous uh anchorman fight
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between all the different news channels and i'm like there's something there brilliant there's something there
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uh and so i decided that the the bringing in swinging will smith too yeah exactly right
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he's mysteriously absent from this adaptation um so my idea is that we said it in modern
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day new york where the splinter factions that we deal with aren't street gangs at this point but political affiliations
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and more so than any other uh overarching politic
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group is like democrats and then left-leaning tend to have very specific
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things that they're fighting for whether it be legalization of marijuana or or are gay rights or uh the green new deal
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and all of these are very important but they're so fractured from one another that there's not a lot of chance for
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them to get along and actually like join together and do something um there's a lot of a lot of infighting that's
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happening so i'm taking the inspiration from the original warriors and applying it to a fractured um and broken
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political system and uh infighting that happens uh within a singular party and
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uh so these are all different groups that um are supporting
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different like lobbies that are fighting in new york city there's a big protest happening uh to fight against like an
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oncoming war that should be happening you know that we're about to go into and whether or not to go into war and whether or not uh to
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take money out of certain budgets and lobbyists are going crazy and it's kind of like seattle uh back when the
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wto was doing stuff and there was like oh yeah the other the no go zone or whatever yeah so it's got that kind of
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energy going on for it and it's just these like politicos it's lobbyists it's uh it's politically motivated people
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reporters that are all kind of part of these different groups and so the warriors are actually just like the
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seasoned um like activists and uh and lobbyists that are like
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trying to do like the green new deal they're trying to like protect the environment they've been through it
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they've they've been ridden hard and put away wet they're uh but they're still like in the game
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they're they're not burned out yet they're still believing what they believe in the gramercy riffs are like the old head near retirement they're
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trying to get the new big hitters in town to like rally together to try to actually stand up together and get stuff
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done uh the rogues are just the like i would say wall street bro type uh
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lobby contingency uh-huh that yeah just very kind of woeful wall street uh you
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just like really uh alpha male energy you know toxic male kind of vibe to them
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then there's the turnbull acs which the only thing that they had going for them in the original
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i think it was the bus right yeah they were like bald the slow moving bus the slowing boss of bald dudes i think was
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the only thing um so sure we'll just make them we'll make
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them all balding but prematurely balding not like shaved head balding but like
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horseshoe balding yeah like me yeah yeah and then we've got the
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orphans um which are just like a kind of a gaggle of the leftovers that get thrown
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together of just all the the forgotten ones and then the baseball furies these are the the big badasses the billy
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badasses of uh the groups that are coming after the the warriors uh they're
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uh big tobacco they're big firearms they're the big heavy duty lobbies that
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are coming after them then we've got the lizzie's and that is [ __ ] hats that is women's rights uh
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body autonomy like stuff that you know what's that like uh second wave feminism
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i think so yeah yeah something that's what's funny is a lot of the stuff is stuff i actually like do care about and
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do believe in but tone is to be this like absurdist lens on
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extreme micro advocacy where it's this one one issue and that's the only
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issue that i'm going to focus on and no other issue and then everything else becomes almost a a challenge to you your
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voice being heard um is kind of the point of this film so just to go through so it's a political
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film it's making some political points about like sometimes you've got to be able to compromise with people to get anything done
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and sometimes it's with people that you actually agree with you just have to like give just enough and but it's also going to be very funny
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uh for the warriors i am getting the a few of the regular hitters from the
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jud apatow crew to show up for this uh we've got seth rogen jonah hill jay barachel
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martin starr jason siegel and christopher mintz ploss as the warriors
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yeah that's that sounds about right yeah yeah i could see that
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and they're they're they're like the the new hot kids in town uh they still they haven't burned out quite yet but they're
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seasoned enough that people know not to mess with them you know they got that green new deal energy you know um
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[Laughter] and then the gramercy riffs the old heads the ones that you know
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can tell them young whipper snappers a thing or two uh about what it's like in the in the uh trenches we've got
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the adam mckay crowd uh we've got will ferrell paul rudd steve carell tim meadows vince vaughn
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and john c riley i'm loving it so these are you know comedic actors that i've
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loved for decades that are you know in their 50s or 60s and
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have served their time for sure but still keep coming out and just killing it killing the game so i feel like this
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movie got made a decade ago and i missed it i just missed it uh then we've got the the rogues and
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that's the uh wall street energy douchebro kind of vibe and i thought it
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would be really fun to see what broken lizard could do with that so we've got uh jay chandisekar kevin heffernan paul
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stoder steve lemmy eric still uh stalansky and and then threw in brian
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cox for good measure uh since he was in in super troopers just to be the like douchebag
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slick back hair like lobby for wall street kind of deal with the jp morgan and uh lobbyist
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people in the uh in the movie gordon gekko american psycho energy yeah
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and just let him just let him go big let him just do [ __ ] all of that and i
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think it would be they would have so much fun with it and i'm here for it
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uh then we've got the turnbill acs these are the balding ones and uh they're gonna be awkward and weird um and
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not in a lot of the movies so i wanted a contingency that can do a lot with a little uh so i decided to do mike judges
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uh regular hitters from some of his movies so we've got ron livingston
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jason bateman tj miller thomas middle ditch kumail nanjiani and jimmy yo yang as the
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uh as the turnbull ac's that's awesome i think your movie just got cancelled just
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got cancelled because of tj miller
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damn dude well trust me like this is a budget they wouldn't be able to afford anyway with all these
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are you kidding me um you can shoot the movie then you have to go back and replace uh tj miller with
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tig notaro after the movie's already shot you have the green screen take notaro in
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i would make the accidental choice of just replacing uh tj miller with all the footage they took out of aquaman two of
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amber heard and then they have to replace that
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she's a monster uh then she should she should have been on the uh on the the rogues team i think
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uh with all the wall street dudes if if uh we're talking monsters here but uh oh yeah yeah so that's the
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turbulencies the orphans i wanted the weird ones that they're they're funny they're uh they're
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respected but they're definitely not playing in the same spaces of comedy as
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the uh as the other people like apatow and mckay they can kind of like intermingle broken lizard can jump into
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some stuff but uh wes anderson's tribe is doing a totally different type of comedy uh than
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the rest of them it's like affluent quiet white humor and uh
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so for for that of course wes sanderson's regular hitters jason schwartzman bill murray luke and owen
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wilson angelica houston and willem dafoe as the orphans uh gang
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[Laughter] the geriatric or the geriatric performance
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we're looking for mummies and daddy i just want to see like bill murray sitting there just like eating a bag of
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popcorn and then jason schwartzman just like we just need to be taken seriously and it was like you're not you're not
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i'm sorry [Laughter] uh then the baseball fury's this was very fun to cast
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because there are a few comedic actors that uh are also like built like a brick
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[ __ ] house um or actors that can do comedy really well that are very
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very muscular and so i just like it was just all carrot top infinite carrot top just one carrot top
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actually i did add him to this so good good on you
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[Laughter] it's carrot top terry crews uh chris hemsworth
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dave bautista john cena and the rock yeah how perfect can you get i mean and
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i think i even listed them from like small to big [Laughter]
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yeah i think it would be just really funny that they've got that like badass energy where they're just
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they're coming after them with baseball bats and they've got their faces half painted and they're coming after the uh the warriors uh during this whole like
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standoff thing that's happening yeah it's just the the biggest action stars that and carrot top that you could
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hope for [Laughter] and then finally that's too scary for this fun movie yeah no [ __ ] right could
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you imagine being like the [ __ ] mike judge crew and then and then
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the the baseball furies show up uh like all like 18 feet tall like brick [ __ ]
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house having jason bateman trying to talk him down right and and ended up ending up looking like
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the dave chappelle attacker oh [ __ ] like he comes off as condescending even when he doesn't
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intend to be so yeah yeah that's not well that's his bag that's his uh his acting bag that's nice niche you're
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you're uh your group's bard uh that's not who you send out to negotiate
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uh finally we got the lizzie's and so i just i picked some like amazing uh comedic actresses to be in the lizzie's
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gang uh so of course tina fey and amy pola are in there that seemed like a no-brainer we also got kristen wiig
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rashida jones leslie jones and christian stahl and nice i think for even as smaller role as the
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lizzie's role is that powder keg of funny would probably be the scene stealer in a [ __ ] half
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against all these other ones that are like trying to individually smirk at the screen those ladies would just [ __ ] blow it
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out of the park i think um yeah at this because this is really interesting are you imagining this as a
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series of comedic encounters with each one individually or does the overarching
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plot have them all come together and be like um part of the whole story
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um i was thinking that the barest of chances of this being made uh having
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individual encounters is a better choice because there's a lot of favors that can be called in for this kind of movie that people would be like okay so it's only
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like four days of shooting yeah i can i can block off four days to come in there and just do like you know a 10-minute
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scene and then call it a day uh and you've got enough people that i mean imagine two hours of this i mean if this
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was all on the screen at the same time for even a ten minute portion of this movie it's
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too much it's too many [ __ ] people it's it's the most expensive movie ever made with
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no cgi exactly so individual individual experiences a
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little bit of overlap just like in the original movie that i think it's what the orphans and the lizzies i think
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are around each other at the same time there's some back and forth of course the gramercy riffs and the rogues and the warriors
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are all there at the same time so there's some of that but um also you're seeing like broken lizard
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the adam mckay crowd and the judd apatow crowd all on the screen at the same time just doing their thing would be [ __ ]
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amazing oh definitely it would be interesting to kind of play up what was so
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funny about the anchorman fight scene who uh adam mckay is the
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director that seemed like a no-brainer it's political it's funny um he did anchorman as well
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and you play up the political angle you play up the the silliness that was in the anchorman fight scene but then with
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these little individual dips in between the fights where you have these actors being able to just have their like spotlight moment
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where they just do like a riff they do a thing they have like a smaller not group ensemble moment and just let them cut
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[ __ ] fly and i think you're gonna get some magic out of it um you're gonna have some actors for sure that are like worth way
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more than they're getting on screen where they're on there and they have like one line and that's it and the joke
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is that they're there and they have one line yeah so but but with uh with an adam mckay movie where
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i think he does a lot of even though it's scripted letting people just do their thing
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and so people are that are very experienced as actors tend to bring out their natural charm
29:47
if they know they make them under their money off of doing their natural charm thing so yeah i think that would work out and i
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was extraordinarily well you're getting these improvisational actors they're all good at improving on set
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and you get them to face each other in like a standoff fight uh so they're gonna be doing that same
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thing with their wit as well and just bringing like just trying to outdo each other with the most ridiculous [ __ ] you
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can think of um so i i could see this being just like almost too funny
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with the just like there wouldn't be the breaks that you need in between laughter because everybody's just like going full
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speed ahead with this so i don't know too many big guns trying to out shoot each other exactly yeah so
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i kind of want to see what that looks like and it might be a train wreck but [ __ ] it will be a fun train wreck
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yeah so so it's it's basically the warriors plot but instead of like gangs fighting over who killed the uh
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the cyrus it was bringing all the gangs together it was a you know a politician that was shot and it being blamed on
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the warriors contingency of like green new deal people and uh them trying to get away while
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other people are trying to use them getting caught as like an angle for their own advocacy that they're doing so
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they're everybody's trying to and of course instead of the radio dj person it's a it's a [ __ ] like
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alex jones live streamer type that's out there just trying to like chase him down on live tv
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so and you can even have yeah as jk simmons uh and he could do basically the same thing he's doing in
31:20
the spider-man universe right now uh that's who came to mind immediately yeah well you know that's how they did
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politics in the gangs of new york era anyway so they're and even after that
31:32
there's a president for that kind of thing politics through the the bat
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through this the stickball bat and there's still some countries that do that so
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oh yeah yeah sometimes ours yeah uh well i mean the way things are going but that's a that's
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a different podcast [Laughter] uh so yeah that's my my [ __ ]
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train wreck of a uh comedy take on the warriors what do you got for yours all
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right so like i said i i really had some trouble uh latching onto this and it was
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the whole gang thing just didn't work for me so i uh
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i kind of called an audible and uh you know if you've never listened to our podcast before we do
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some mashups as part of the uh the format so i just i just decided to start with the mashup okay
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basically my movie is a sequel to the purge movies
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it's okay the purge the warriors and
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so you'll see some characters from some of the other one characters just particular but you'll see some characters from some of
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the other purge movies come in and basically in in response to the purge day um and
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the new founding fathers initiative to you know purge sin through excess
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groups have sprung up in various communities that their whole thing is they train all year to protect their
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community like gangs like gangs of old they're they they just gather together to
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protect their community they're marshall they're well trained uh they're ready to to kill on purge night
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because you can but in defense they're not going out and killing random people sure they're killing in defense of their
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community and as this movement has grown to have like a community defense force basically
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the community defense force is loosely organized in a specific area they have a community
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meeting of the community defense forces under those circumstances
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the leader of the community defense force in that area which is loosely around new york
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gets murdered uh the leader gets murdered off-screen because the leader is uh the leader of what was
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functionally that in the actual purge movies and that actor is dead um
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it was michael kenneth williams was uh carmelo johns and in the purge anarchy
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he was like the the quiet viral leader of an anti-purge movement okay yeah so uh he was the he's
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the head of this this organizing principle he's murdered they think it's the warriors who were
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just another community defense force it wasn't the warriors it was a plant
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gang so somebody who else somebody else who looks like a community defense force but is not
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they are placed there by the money and influence of the founding fathers to
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shake up and destroy the organization of these uh community defenders i
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i don't know that seems a little more complicated than i don't know we just like doing stuff like that [Laughter]
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so they uh they spend the night trying to both fend off purgers
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both individual and organized and other community defense forces that are coming after them for killing uh
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carmelo johns um so as
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uh my warriors as the leader of the g-riffs or that they're just called the geores
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or not the gramercy riffs uh is um a character who was in was it called
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the first purge he rose over the course of movie from being a gang leader to being like a
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leader leader oh right okay putting him in a position that he was probably
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doing something like this after that movie uh is ilan noel dimitri
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uh i forget what his character's name is but he will be the leader of the gramercy riffs so everybody
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you know the scenes that cut back to him as they're trying to find the warriors to the e through the evening that'll be
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him nice and then for my warriors this is what made this project
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difficult i already was having trouble latching on to it and then finding these appropriately young actors for like a
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gang style thing uh it it hurt it broke me
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but uh going through the characters uh first cast i cast rembrandt uh rembrandt is significant to me in the
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original warriors movies because the actor that played rembrandt is one of the two actors that i actually
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recognized from that movie uh and he played one of the members of the bloodhound gang on three two one
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contact really like yeah he was one of the members of the bloodhound king so pbs guy
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uh very gay unfortunately died of aids in like 86.
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oh so he was taken way too soon but uh as rembrandt
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we have jaden smith so he's the tagger guy jaden smith as vermin
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who was a significant character he didn't do a specific thing he was just around for the the full movie uh we have
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from cobra kai uh he plays robbie is tanner buchanan okay yeah
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uh as ajax who is the rapist dude who got off really easy in the warriors
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like when the police came and got him i was like wow you got off really easy because you could have easily been murdered by anybody in this
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entire movie including your own guys and nobody would have batted an eyelash um
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and actually james remar i believe is the actor who played him and that's the only other actor i recognized
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in the warriors um he's played a bunch of stuff he was like raiden to
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and um mortal kombat annihilation oh wow i think i blocked all of that movie out of
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my brain at this point he was the uh he was the alfred like character in uh the black lightning on
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the black lightning tv show he's been in a bunch of stuff throughout his career but uh as ajax i have cameron monahan
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now you probably don't know that name because i only recognized him from one thing but he was
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basically the joker on gotham he played a character called jeremiah and then later on he played jeremiah's twin
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brother after jeremiah was murdered and they're both basically proto-jokers yep
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so he's ajax as swann i have uh somebody a little bit more famous
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one direction's harry styles is swan wow and you may know him as
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uh star fox from the eternals if you were able to sit all the way through that boring ass movie uh he was in
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dunkirk and i'm sure he's been in some other stuff but those are his big appearances uh dunkirk and and the eternals two
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slow-ass movies although i will say though dunkirk was slow still very i like dunkirk a lot i liked it a little
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bit it's beautiful it's very slow-paced but it's technically style over substance like like
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uh what's his face um his clockwork movies that is like the uh the apotheosis of
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of the the clockwork nature of the movies that he makes and i i love it i
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think dunkirk is awesome um for cochise which was the black guy who got more
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screen time than the other black guys uh we have [Laughter]
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none of them had like a super significant role but cochise is the black guy who got the most screen time of out of all the black guys that's
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what's funny is like this is like gangs in the like late 70s early 80s in new york city
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and like cyrus is a black dude that's like bringing all the gangs together with like can you dig it and they're
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like sure yeah no i can like four other black dudes
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well the the the leader of the uh the initial leader of the warriors was black but they take him off they like just
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take him out they take him out and he's taken out off screen yeah like you're like this guy's significant
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give him at least a warrior's death or something no they just they just take him out and he's just gone from the
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movie he demanded too much services so they just kicked him off the movie [Laughter]
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you had two hot dogs you're only supposed to have one and a fruit cup he's like i want two fruit cups
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you're out we got swan to do it you were supposed to leave pineapple for everybody else you took too much pineapple but as my
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cochise uh ashton sanders uh ashton sanders played the middle age version of
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uh sharon from moonlight so you have the the little kid version the high school version the adult
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version he was the high school version okay okay i mean he's like 28 or something now but
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at the time you know he was he was very young um as mercy and in my movie mercy is
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actually a member of the warriors she's not like a prostitute that they kind of bring in or is fawning after one of
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their warriors as mercy i have yara shahidi who is uh yeah
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she's from blackish and uh what's her show grown-ish grown-ish yeah i think i've cast her in
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a couple things great actress um yeah especially very pretty and uh yeah she's a good actress the
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only other person i cast is the villain the main villain which is luther
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and that is uh montana jordan and he's the older brother on young sheldon
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i've not watched a single moment of young sheldon so i have no frame of reference
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i've seen a little bit but uh at that point i was flat you know how hard it is to like just recognize actors as they're
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growing like unless you watch tv because that's where these people start i don't watch any tv then you don't
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get to see these actors grow to the point where they get to take on movie roles and uh so
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finding actors under 30 i was going to say like under 25 but now it's like fighting actors under 30 is hard as [ __ ]
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yeah well especially uh the actors that under 30 that are you know worth their their salt uh you
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don't want to keep reusing them and stuff you need a bigger cycle of and just younger
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actors there's the ones that everybody pins their stuff to and then there's all the other actors that are in like one thing and you don't know the face and
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it's it it takes time for somebody to uh to find their project that boom blows
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them out across the landscape but basically uh in my movie
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in my story the warriors do survive the night at the end of the movie uh
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as the the purge end of the purge clackson is ringing
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they find and kill not just the warriors but all of the community organizations find and kill the
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infiltrators knowing that they were actually the ones who uh killed the cyrus character
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carmelo johns nice the purge is over the traitors have been dealt with
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happy ending no because the new founding fathers uh drone strike the area that all of the
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community uh leaders are in and kill them because the purge must continue and they're the
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people in power so sure that that's the end of the movie damn you nuked him
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yeah did you just pull the end of the return of the living dead movie or just just nuke him that's fine
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so i've got this thing where it and it's it's not healthy but i feel like just uh
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a sad ending or an unhappy ending is more satisfying because it feels more genuine i get that so you notice with a
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lot of my movies they they all end like oh we're gonna have a great time everything's oh no
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oh no now that's that's bad everything's bad it's like there are as it should be there are two different types of people
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and there's a different ending to the movie brazil for each one of them
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the happy ending and the definitely not happy ending so yeah awesome i dig that i disappointed myself
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on the fact that i didn't think of the purge at all when coming up with concepts for this because that's such a
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that's such a obvious uh turn you know that you can yeah it's
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it's a good modern fit in my mind but like i said i was just i was having trouble wrapping my mind around this
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this ancient concept of what street gangs are and it just made it hard to
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it made it hard to do this for me i'm like if we make a warriors movie about street gangs i don't know what street
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gangs look like in 2022 like they sell drugs and make money but i
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don't even know what the culture looks like that surrounds that because i don't listen to the kids music you know i've
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seen some of their rappers they don't look tough but i'm sure that anybody can be tough with a gun and yeah so i don't
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know we are not of the age to be able to write like really affecting uh stories about like gang violence in america in
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2022. like we're yeah we yeah we don't have that uh we could maybe make a movie about gang violence in the 90s as it
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translates to 2022 and then it'd be all wrong and people would come and see it and be like what are you talking about
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old man it would be funny basically like they did with the warriors yeah how out of touch it is would be pretty [ __ ]
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funny um okay so we've got our real takes out of uh out of the way here i think both are
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really interesting um plays on the warriors and also further proof of like this was a hard one to adapt
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it is really it's a very period specific movie and so yeah try to put that in a modern light either that or you're doing
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it as a period piece that takes place in like late 70s early 80s and in which case what are you doing to uh
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improve the story like what are what are you doing if you're making it a period piece is there something else that wasn't said this is a pretty simple film
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it wasn't trying to say a lot it was uh yeah if you make it a period movie it's the warriors
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exactly so i don't want to say it's a perfect movie but it does what it does very effectively yeah and i don't think it
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needs to be remade to be the same kind of movie it would need to say something else so
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my remix definitely says something else and that's the next part that we're going into is our remix remix
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wiki wiki i need to wear jackets so i can just do the zipper thing for the remix
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we'll remember that for next time yeah i'm sure that will only be a help uh or some corduroy so you can wipe your
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sleeves together and you know i used to do that when i wore corduroy back in my youth
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it's a shameful it's an example of my oldness because i had corduroy as well okay cool
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i think it's it's a place in time so my remix uh we are going to the land
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of fantasy a little bit and i wanted to imagine what happens when you take the premise of the
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warriors and you don't do a whole lot of difference to it but you make it in a more uh post-apocalyptic dystopian
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environment and let's say if you were to uh look at
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as a blueprint on how to do this movie uh beyond thunderdome that there's just these little burrows
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in new york that are controlled by powerful uh divas that are
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maintaining different boroughs of new york and they're fighting amongst one another until one diva stands up above
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all of them and says we can work together and we'll have more power until somebody kills that diva and then it's
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such a tragedy that uh the basically the whole world turns on that gang uh to try
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to get them because the diva is dead and so you need a diva that that's a believable response that
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if that happened to them the world would burn um it would just burn down
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and uh so oh they killed beyonce that's yeah uh grammar series
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uh osiris in this version of of this uh film is uh beyonce because i mean really
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i was thinking of doing like a classic diva like a diana ross or a madonna or something but i wanted it to stay
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relatively modern um with the characters and who's a bigger
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diva like queen than beyonce and like no one other oh your breadcrumb controlled my mind and made me choose the right
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answer um yeah beyonce like other divas bow to
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her so um it's made sense that and also beyonce though very talented not a
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terrible actress but also not the most historically uh involved in film she did an austin
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powers movie and i think that was about it yeah beyonce was never uh a good actress
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she's i don't think she had the potential to be a good actress yeah that's that was just i think we talked about this before but that's just not
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her particular bag yeah so giving her a smaller role that's still very important
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it made sense to me but uh the gangs i just took kind of like the
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leaders of the gangs are they uh are the pop divas and then you fill them in with their dancers
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as uh as the rest of the gang uh so this is gonna be a musical oh yeah 100 it's gonna be
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musical um and so for the warriors i wanted yeah a
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modern but relative still relatively seasoned uh pop singer that can you know maybe take the helm of like leader of
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pop um as so many are wanted to do so gaga is uh the warriors i knew it
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yeah a surprisingly good actress uh so she can deal with the amount of screen time that swan has uh for the warriors
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he is a good actress yep and of course gaga is going to be part of this conversation when you're talking pop divas
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for the rogues for the uh for the the gang that pinned the murder of beyonce on poor lady gaga
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uh that was all billy eilish's fault feeling the new kid on the block that just likes
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to cause trouble um we've got bailey because she likes doing stuff like that
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yeah and then she's actually not bad when she was on snl she was actually pretty decent i was surprised no i
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honestly like everything i've seen from her i think she gets picked on just because she's not really problematic like she's
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she makes music with her brother and like is pretty chill
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probably smokes a vape pen plays video games you know uh so for the turnbull acs that's the the
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the bus band of of of narrative wells um i not for any particular reason aside from
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that she had to be in this film and uh there wasn't anything about her specifically that fit any particular
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uh grouping but i think she would have a lot of fun just doing a song behind a bus chasing down uh lady gaga would be
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very funny um lizzo is the leader you know what's funny like i'm saying these
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in my head as you're going through the situations and i picked that one too that is
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see what that means is this is meant to be made this uh this pop diva post-apocalyptic warriors
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remake needs to be made then we've got the the orphans uh you want somebody that's a little bit tragic
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that is gonna feel like you know leaning against a window while it's raining kind of vibe to it uh as as the
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orphans so of course i had to go with adele for that one oh yeah yeah oh yeah yeah
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yeah yeah and then uh to counter that the baseball furies you you got aggro you got some [ __ ]
51:21
edge um a force to be reckoned with so rihanna
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is uh the leader of the baseball furies oh she does have the energy she does she had well when you sing songs about whips
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and chains exciting you uh you should probably have a little bit of that aggro edge and then uh the lizzie's
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girl power uh in the warriors and uh in a movie that is all about girl power you
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need somebody that is ultimate like [ __ ] like girl pop diva power so i'm uh i'm
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bringing her back from a lot of challenges she's run into in the last few years britney spears is
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leading the list oh and i own her a bone i well and i thought about turnbull acs but
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considering they were all bald in the original movie i didn't want to make that the joke
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if the leader of the bald group would be just a little too insensitive so
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uh the lizzie's made made plenty of sense too so yeah britney spears uh welcome you are clearly if you're
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talking about iconic pop divas britney spears is absolutely part of the conversation try to remember uh britney
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spears has actually acted in stuff i think i think she was on a few things in her era
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she was in a movie called crossroads where she
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did a karaoke cover of i love rock and roll in the movie and when she was asked if she
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had a choice in what song to sing in the karaoke scene um
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she said yes um and i picked i love rock and roll because i love pat benatar
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and that broke my heart as a joan jet fan so she was a young person she didn't know yeah she she was
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like probably like 17 when that movie came out so can't hold too much of a grudge but yeah
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so that's that's my pop diva post-apocalyptic musical and i actually found an actor that has worked with most
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of these uh women on music videos and is also a very comp accomplished uh
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director that has dealt with a lot of dystopian and post-apocalyptic properties so talk about a perfect
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[ __ ] match um the director of hunger games catching fire i am legend
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constantine mockingjay also directed videos for amongst a plenty of others
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but shakira janet jackson jennifer lopez pink alanis morissette britney spears
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avril lavigne gwen stefani and plenty of others is uh francis lawrence is the
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director oh my so it was kind of like the perfect combination of things you've got dystopian you've got
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post-apocalyptic you've got girl power girl powers yeah
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it's it's kind of a no-brainer uh slam dunk there and francis lawrence and company if you think that this is
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something that is worth going for um i can't write any music that's not my that's not my angle but if you can just
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throw story by on there and throw me a few bucks i'll uh i'll happily give you the right you know that movie
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would make so much money it would make so much money so much money it would
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make incredible amounts of money it would be like the pop diva movie of all time it would be incredible
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and the and the costuming i mean there'd be wardrobe people from every corner of
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the earth trying to work on this set for all the the tina turner beyond thunderdome post-apocalyptic pop diva
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energy would be oh my god incredible yeah i mean even if if each artist only
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used their own like uh cadre of stylists there'd still be like a hundred thousand
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people employed by this this movie yep that costume changes oh my god
54:57
ridiculous breakaway skirts like there'd be all sorts of crazy amazing [ __ ] that would be going on with this so um a
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spectacle a spectacled scene that would be the weirdest choice this like 200
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million dollar movie with the biggest pop divas of all time uh based on a
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little indie uh cult classic film from the late 70s early 80s yeah
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yeah you get some k-pop stars in there you have like a movie that'd be bigger than avatar
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right oh no [ __ ] you get the and fair enough i'm not ever gonna [ __ ] with the k-pop stands yeah cool but you put your
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put your folks in there that's great um or you just have a remake of this
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movie uh with just the k-pop bands and there you go cool everybody's happy
55:46
yeah my my girlfriend would make me definitely make me see that movie with herself
55:52
so for your remix what are we looking at are you is there's a pop diva centric like mine or
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oh it's so close it's so close but it's so not at all not even a little bit um
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so for my remake i wanted to once again around the concept of where
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people gathered to form uh coalitions of common interest
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my movie is it's about gamers okay
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and a third of the movie takes place in the real world
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and and two-thirds of the movie takes place in the game um
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the in the game portion will be strictly like um pixar level cgi
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uh the in the world of portion will be really intentionally static and plain
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the actors who live in the end of the world in the world portion
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don't do anything like i want the the in-game portion to be big and bombastic with orchestral
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music and special effects everything and then periodically the movie cuts to the
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person at their computer kind of just sitting there like a lump like a computer zombie like pressing the
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keyboard and grunting or whatever nice so it's kind of an irreverent gamer
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comedy like in the vein of free guy but it's it's more crass it's meaner
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in how it makes fun of the people in the real world but i want i want the the game portion to be like
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ridiculous in how serious it takes itself it i want it to take itself so seriously that that's
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funny that it's taking itself like it thinks it's so important i want that to be
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the funny part of the game portion so uh it's a
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it's like a world of warcraft style game um so high fantasy setting
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people have their plans in this case the warriors the ones we follow are people from all over the world and
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they're all kinds of people they're kids and old people and shut-ins even
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business dudes and there is uh kind of a massively
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multiplayer uh dungeon um challenge aesthetic where these teams can fight each other in game
58:16
uh what was that old whatever the less offensive version of smear the queer i don't know if you
58:21
remember that oh yeah that wasn't uh a great title of a japanese game but i'm sure that there's
58:27
a new title for what that is i don't know what it is like the fumble on fred or something i don't know yeah
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so the uh the the the games uh server managers have made the warriors the ones
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they they're the ones that everybody else is coming after uh in the process of this uh this
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campaign for this evening so it's tense it's the warriors this clan of nine
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versus the entire game world uh your clan has to be at a certain level
58:56
to be in that position because you have to be powerful enough to make it a fun game for everybody but just through the process of
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attrition they die out throughout the evening you see very melodramatic moments of losing
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characters that are like uh sad and in game the characters like crying and being like you will be avenged and then
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you just cut to the dude in his room just click click click click click uh just like a little little drool like
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off the corner of his mouth eating chips code red mountain dew yeah yeah
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um so for my directors and there's only one reason i chose these
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guys it was because of one episode of their tv show but it's trey parker and matt stone oh wow okay yeah
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they did a world of warcraft episode of south park that might be one of the best episodes of that kind of tv ever made it
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is hilarious it was so spot on in the moment of its time which
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cartoons never do they're always like years behind um yeah i love that episode and it's very
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funny i don't know if south park is still funny but at that time it was still very funny so
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uh trey parker and matt stoner the directors i'm actually not using
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any big name actors in this all the actors are voice actors like you could have big
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name actors as the people that don't do anything sure i hadn't really considered it but the the funny part there would be that
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they're there but they don't do anything that's not really yeah
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but in the game world i'm i'm using actual voice actors because that's something that that people complain about all the time hiring big stars from
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the age of aladdin from uh robin williams blowing that up and them not
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doing you know robin williams is the exception but them not generally doing as well as an actual voice actor what yeah fair
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so uh in game as swan i have troy baker huge antique voice actor and these
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people voice acting is a profession where you voice act in tv and in games
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some people are known more for their game voice acting some people are known more for their
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their animation voice acting but troy baker is uh he's joel from the last of us but
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he's kind of a young guy so he's also like a bunch of other stuff as a young guy's got like a lot of range nice um as
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ajax i have nolan north nolan north was drake from the uncharted games but also
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has a lot of rain so if you ever played the uh the the arkham city or arkham asylum games
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he was the penguin he was cockney penguin oh wow okay yeah just a lot of range
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uh as mercy we have tara strong tara strong is the
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probably the biggest of the lady voice actors um
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she's done so many roles i think the one that comes to mind immediately is that she is so uh tara strong is a
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famous voice actor she's probably the most famous voice actress she was on powerpuff girls i believe she was raven
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on teen titans go any number of things so she's my mercy but yeah just a bunch
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of voice actors um providing actual voices as luther we have patrick seats who is like an anime
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villain guy his his career is voicing anime villains nice uh and as cyrus i want to get this in
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specifically we have kevin michael richardson and kevin michael richardson is like the default black guy on like um uh
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lots of stuff anytime you hear a deep voiced black guy in kids animation it's kevin michael richardson he's uh steve's
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high school principal on american dad okay that's kevin michael richardson nice
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so my concept is is around those two it's around the cgi game world which is most
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the movie the people at home just just being video games zombies
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the night ends climactic battle celebration most of the warriors have
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survived the night there's tears and drinking and much praise is given
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and then we just have a montage of people signing out of their computers and just kind of sitting there with
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their mountain dew and cheetos and uh and the movie just ends with these
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people like looking at this blank computer screen damn so yeah you do like a uh
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a sad ending for sure nice but i like that point that's coming
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across is that yeah like all this jubilation all this excitement this you know amazing thing that occurred but in
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the end of the day that's just a video game it's not giving your life any of that you know besides that very
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temporary feeling of success and community and community and community
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sure all right so we've got one last little bit to do before we get out of here and
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that's our uh trailers i think uh mashing up the warriors will be very much fun to do
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on on a mini episode moving forward in the future there's already like three or four ideas that are circling around in my
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brain that are oh definitely pretty easy to combine so that'll be a lot of fun
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but for our trailers i'm definitely doing the adam mckay one because the francis
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lawrence one would require me to sing in a lady songs and that is not my strong not that i
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wouldn't i absolutely would there's no fear about me singing lady parts and songs it's that i don't want to
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like not have any audience left after this episode so i'm going to adam mckay it
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up um are you doing your which one are you doing man um
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i don't know i think it might be easier to find music for the purged one so i think i'll do the purge one okay cool
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let me get that cued up [Music]
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from the director that brought you don't look up the other guys vice
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and anchorman comes a story of the fight that it takes to find
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togetherness join director adam mckay as he weaves a tapestry of political intrigue and
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infighting as one politician that can change everything
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falls from grace with a bullet and the warriors are blamed for it
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warriors played by seth rogen jonah hill chief aeroshell martin starr tracy siegel christopher vince floss and i'm
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not naming all the people in this movie they are played by the robes played by
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broken lizard and everyone involved with broken lizard uh they have to make their way to coney
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island where their offices are are held before the streaming universe uh finds a way at
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an angle to make them look even worse this is over political intrigue and
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the comedy elite joined forces in adam mckay's warriors
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take my money great i'm gonna slick back my hair for that screening
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or a pinstripe shirt with a white collar and yeah the whole nine yard do the whole nine yards the combo that i never
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understood at all is though the blue shirt with the white collar and uh and
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the cuffs as well are white yeah weird that's a weird look i don't know why that's a thing that people do but
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okay um i i guess so yeah universal sign that you know i have
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money and probably that i'm old yeah definitely if you rock that look there's no youths out there wearing the
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blue shirt with a white collar all right so you are doing you're doing
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the purge one right i am doing the purge one i don't if i didn't mention it in the show because i
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don't remember if i did my director is james demonico who directed the purge
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trilogy and almost nothing else so yeah nice putting that out there excellent
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cool well i am ready when you are let's do it cool here we go
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america is the body the new founding fathers are the infection
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and the cure is the warriors in the fight against the purge the
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warriors and other community groups have come together to protect americans from
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the purgers and the philosophies of the new founding fathers but in a terrible turn of events
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the organizer of the community protection groups has been murdered and it's up to the warriors to defend
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their name from the accusation of crime director james demonicos
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the purge the warriors as jaden smith has rembrandt because he
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can't fight tanner buchanan cameron monahan
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harry star fox styles ashton sanders and yara shahidi
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set out to defend their name from the violence of the purge and the violence
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of their brothers in arms will they survive the knights in james demonic goes the purge
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the warriors coming with some of them yay
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that is a kind of a no-brainer combo i love that that's great ooh i struggled with that one
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yeah this is definitely this was a uh knock down drag out uh battle for a remake and reimagining on this episode
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but i think considering the circumstances we pretty did a pretty decent job i mean this is one of those
1:09:03
like almost unadaptable like or unmodernizable movies uh without it coming off as like
1:09:09
either completely tone deaf or uh or yeah old dudes writing stuff that
1:09:14
they don't have any understanding of so well yeah fully agreed no i came into this thinking i got nothing and i'm
1:09:20
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