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The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary

202 - The Love Bug / The Amsterdam Kill / Birds of Prey

The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary

Video Archives Podcast, LLC.

Tv & Film, Film History

4.8828 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary join the race in The Love Bug.  A down on his luck race car driver purchases a little VW Bug that leads him straight to victory, but he's the only one who doesn't realize that the little car has a mind of its own!  In our first ever Disney clamshell title, Roger and Quentin discuss how Herbie honked his way into their hearts, how the Disney regular actors shined in their roles, and the story behind this particular box at Video Archives...

Quentin and Roger continue the conversation over on Patreon with two more titles.  Next up, it's The Amsterdam Kill, where a former DEA agent is hired by a drug lord who wants out of the business.  Quentin and Roger chat about how this movie was a precursor to heroic bloodshed, the dynamic between actors, and a bit about director Robert Clouse.  To finish up our triple feature, we've got Birds of Prey.  The guys focus in on the stunt work and how the actors play off each other.  Run fast and don’t look back, because Birds of Prey may be the last thing your eyes will ever see.  

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0:00.0

On this episode of the Video Archives podcast, Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avery join the race in The Love Bug.

0:07.7

A down-on-his-luck race car driver purchases a little VW bug that leads him straight to victory.

0:13.0

However, he seems to be the only one who doesn't realize that the little car has a mind of its own.

0:18.3

In our first ever Disney Clamshell title, Quentin and Roger discuss how

0:22.3

Herbie honked his way into their hearts, how the Disney regular actors shined in their roles,

0:27.4

and how this particular box came to the video archive shelves. Next up, let's travel to Amsterdam

0:33.6

or rather Hong Kong for the Amsterdam kill.

0:38.2

When a former DEA agent, played by Robert Mitchum, is hired by a drug lord who wants out of the business,

0:44.0

he's thrown into a conspiracy and a web of lies.

0:47.6

Quentin and Roger chat about how this movie was a precursor to heroic bloodshed,

0:52.0

the dynamic between actors Robert Mitchum and Leslie Nielsen,

0:55.0

and a bit about director Robert Klaus. And to finish up the night, we're high in the sky in

1:01.4

Birds of Prey. A former military pilot now flies a helicopter for the News and Weather Channel. But when

1:08.1

he sees a bank robbery and kidnapping, he's the only man who can pursue.

1:12.8

In this TV movie directed by William A. Graham, Quentin and Roger chat about how the stunt

1:17.6

sequences keep topping each other, how David Jansen and Ralph Meeker played off of each other,

1:22.4

and how they chased worked both ways. Run fast and don't look back because birds of prey may be the last thing

1:29.0

your eyes will ever see. I'm Gala Avery and joining us now, here's Roger Avery and Fenton

1:34.8

Tarantino. Thank you, Gala, and I'm so excited to be back. We have a bunch of great movies

1:42.3

to talk about, and I'm super excited that we're going to be talking about our first Disney film, our first clamshell Disney movie, and that film is The Love Bug.

1:52.2

That is true. We've, this is Quentin, by the way, we've had a magnificent Disney library that we had both at video archives and then augmented wonderfully by the

2:04.1

Eddie Brandt collection. But they're also kind of, they're in the main room, but they're kind of

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