#115: (Pt 2) A Futile and Stupid Gesture / Wet Hot American Summer

The Next Picture Show

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Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

David Wain’s new A FUTILE AND STUPID GESTURE brings the deconstructive spirit of his cult comedy classic WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER to the biopic formula, putting a meta, self-aware spin on the story of Doug Kenney, co-founder of The National Lampoon. After digging into the benefits and limitations of Wain’s approach as applied to a sprawling biopic-slash-portrait of a scene, we talk over how the two films work together, as points of comparison as well as contrast. Plus, Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your cinematic radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER, A FUTILE AND STUPID GESTURE, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Your Next Picture Show: • Keith: Elaine May’s A NEW LEAF • Genevieve: Michael Almeryeda’s MARJORIE PRIME • Scott: Abbas Kiarostami’s 24 FRAMES Outro Music: Martin Mull, “The Time Of My Life” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sit in quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.2	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.4	Tea break.
0:09.4	Lunch break.
0:10.2	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.1	Sometimes it's not time for some tombollah, right?
0:15.1	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time.
0:29.3	Go on. Play some other time. visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gamble aware.org It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:36.2	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:42.9	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:49.3	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film
0:53.6	in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:56.0	I'm Scott Tobias here again with...
0:57.7	Genevieve Kosky.
0:58.7	And...
0:58.9	Keith Thubes.
0:59.7	Tasha Robinson has decided to reserve her insight into National Lampoon for Van Wilder,
1:04.6	but she'll be with us next time.
1:06.7	When we do that Van Wilder episode, guys?
1:08.5	On the first half of this episode, we discussed David Wayne's Wet Hot American Summer,
1:12.8	the 2001 comedy that brought the offbeat silliness of his troop of the state to a big screen spoof.
1:18.4	In this episode, we'll turn our attention to Wayne's new Netflix film,
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