153 Zorro the Gay Blade
The Cine-Files
Steve Morris & John Rocha
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
It's guilty pleasure time on The Cine-Fiels and this week we are discussing John's pick 1981 Zorro The Gay Balde, starring George Hamilton. Believe it or not we had a fantastic conversation on this one and you should definitely check it out, even if you are not a fan of the movie.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Cinephile fans, this is John. This week on the Cinephiles, we are tackling one of my guilty pleasures and of course Steve kind of teased it in the Facebook group. |
| 0:11.0 | It's 1981's Zorro The Gay Blade. |
| 0:14.4 | It stars George Hamilton, Lauren Hutten, and Ron Leibman, |
| 0:17.9 | a hilarious take, in my opinion, |
| 0:20.7 | on the legend of Zorro and the possibility of him being represented by two |
| 0:25.9 | brothers of different walks of life. |
| 0:28.7 | Now before you say to yourself, why would I possibly listen to this episode, I can't encourage you enough to do so. |
| 0:34.3 | Steve and I get into some incredible discussions about some of the characters in the movie |
| 0:38.8 | and about some deeper issues as well about representation and what it was like in the 1980s to have a film. |
| 0:45.3 | This is essentially a Latino story being played by people who are not Latino necessarily. |
| 0:51.0 | So this is a fun episode I think you all will get so much out of even if you don't like the movie you'll love it and if you do like the movie I think you'll love this episode even more. |
| 1:00.0 | So join us this week on the Cineviles for 1981's Zorro the Gay Blade. |
| 1:07.3 | But I'm afraid this costume is not to my taste. |
| 1:10.1 | If I am going to be this Zorro, Chappie, I want to make more of a statement. |
| 1:14.0 | I want the world to recognize Z. My name is Steve Morris. I'm a filmmaker directing instructor in Los Angeles, California. |
| 1:35.0 | Hello, my name is John Rocke. I'm a voice over artist, writer, producer, and host over a collider, and the co-host of the top 10 podcast and the Geek Buddies podcast and this one yeah. |
| 1:46.0 | And there's also deep cuts. |
| 1:47.0 | Oh yeah the deep cut which I do over at Kaleiter, Kaleida Conversations. |
| 1:50.8 | That one's actually starting to pick up some steam. It's really nice. I've been very like I know you're a big fan of documentaries. |
| 1:56.6 | It's been great to have like this little carve out this little niche of directors that want to come on because I'm giving their |
| 2:04.6 | documentaries a lot of love and giving their like experiences on those |
| 2:08.9 | documentaries a lot of love so I'm I'm excited and it's I hope you will not take this the wrong way I've |
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