#169: Muscled Memories, Pt. 2 - Captain Marvel

The Next Picture Show

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4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Our pairing of sci-fi action films with a side of meditation on memory and identity brings in the new CAPTAIN MARVEL to see how Carol Danvers’ journey of lost and reclaimed memories looks next to the very different (and much bloodier) journey taken by Douglas Quaid in Paul Verhoeven’s TOTAL RECALL. We share our reactions to CAPTAIN MARVEL and its choice to center its narrative on an amnesiac hero, then bring in TOTAL RECALL to compare the two films’ approaches to their central ideas about memory, how they function as science-fiction stories, how they treat their female characters, and more. 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 TOTAL RECALL, CAPTAIN MARVEL, or anything else in the world of film by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. *Show Notes* Works cited:• Captain Marvel’s Cat Wrangler Explains How Goose Became a Flerken Hero on Set, by April Wolfe (Vulture.com) Your Next Picture Show: • Scott: Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra’s BIRDS OF PASSAGE, and Movie Premieres Unlimited (@NightOpening) • Keith: Robert Aldrich’s VERA CRUZ • Genevieve: Robbie Thompson and Niko Henrichon’s MEET THE SKRULLS comic, and FX’s WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS Outro Music: Smashing Pumpkins, “Today” 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	Do 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.
0:50.1	Welcome back to The Next Picture Show, a movie The Week podcast devoted to a classic film in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:57.3	I'm Keith Phipps here again with Genevieve Koski.
1:00.0	Scott Tobias.
1:00.8	In our last episode, we discussed Total Recall, a Paul Verhoeven film in which Arnold Schwarzenegger performs Feats of Daring on Mars.
1:07.7	Maybe.
1:08.9	Today we'll be talking about Captain Marvel, the latest entry in the Marvel
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