#168: Muscled Memories, Pt. 1 - Total Recall (1990)

The Next Picture Show

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Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The newest MCU entry CAPTAIN MARVEL is, among other things, an action-packed science-fiction film that’s also interested in the question of how memory relates to identity. That, plus the film’s 1990s setting, put us in mind of another cosmic blockbuster from that era with similar ideas crackling beneath its action-movie surface: Paul Verhoeven’s TOTAL RECALL. In this half of our pairing of brawny-yet-brainy blockbusters, we debate how much TOTAL RECALL is asking us to interrogate the bloody action in which it revels, whether casting Arnold Schwarzenegger as a would-be ordinary Joe contributes to or detracts from the film’s self-awareness, and if there’s any validity to the reading that Quaid’s memory trip is all just a dream. Plus, some feedback inspired by our recent pairings, and pairings that could have been. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about TOTAL RECALL, CAPTAIN MARVEL, or anything else film-related by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Outro music: Jerry Goldsmith, "The Big Jump" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time
0:22.6	put your phone down
0:23.8	Tombollah
0:24.7	Open for fun
0:26.4	Terms apply 18 plus gamblerware
0:28.7	org
0:29.3	It's very difficult to keep the line
0:34.5	between the past and the present
0:36.1	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:42.8	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:50.2	Welcome to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Keith Phipps here with Genevieve Koski. Scott Tobias. Today we're... Wait, what are we doing again? Don't you remember, Keith? Keith? Are you okay? Do you need us to jog your memory? Memory? Okay, there it is. This week we're talking about two science fiction films deeply
1:12.8	interested in the question of memory and how it relates to our identity. Well, okay, deeply
1:17.1	might be too strong a word, but both are somewhat concerned about memory and identity,
1:20.9	even if they're always at least concerned about keeping the action moving and explosions exploding.
1:26.0	Genevieve, can you tell us more? Sure. Captain Marvel,
1:29.1	the first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to focus squarely on a female protagonist,
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