119 - The Great Waldo Pepper

The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary

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Tv & Film, Film History

4.8 • 828 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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High above the clouds flies the second greatest pilot who ever lived…The Great Waldo Pepper! A biplane pilot who missed his chance at glory in World War I takes up barnstorming in George Roy Hill’s third collaboration with Robert Redford. Quentin and Roger discuss Hill as a great thematic filmmaker, the powerful use of music and silence, the crazy real-life plane stunts, and a scene so heart-wrenching, many viewers couldn’t recover. Then, they reach deep into the psyche of Waldo Pepper, discussing chasing your dreams and the consequences of living a lie.

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0:42.2	On this episode of the Video Archives podcast, high above the clouds flies the second
0:48.5	greatest pilot who ever lived, the great Waldo Pepper.
0:51.8	It was a time of heroes, daredevils, and dames, and a time of Waldo.
0:56.2	A biplane pilot who missed flying in World War I takes up barnstorming on a quest for the glory he had missed out on during the war.
1:02.7	We focus in on director George Roy Hill, where this sits in his filmography, the stories he desired to tell on the big screen, and the overall themes he brought to his films.
1:11.7	Then, the film itself,
1:13.3	the powerful use of music and silence,
1:15.3	the crazy real-life plain sense in how they were achieved,
1:18.2	and a scene in the movie that is so heart-wrenching
1:20.9	you may just not recover.
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