262 – Inside Man

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

We return to the filmography of Spike Lee this week with his biggest box office success, 2006’s Inside Man. With a star-packed cast led by Denzel Washington as a hostage negotiator, Clive Owen as the bank robber opposite him, and Jodie Foster as a nefarious fixer, Lee took a standard crime thriller and made it his own to instantly rewatchable results. While the film generated the kind of “you know what was a good movie? Inside Man!” year-end critical reassessment we often talk about, it wasn’t enough to result in the snowball effect that leads to Oscar nominations.

This episode, we talk about how Lee elevates the film with his stylistic trademarks and the film’s twinship with 2006’s Best Picture winner The Departed. Topics also include Foster’s return this season with Nyad, Owen’s post-Oscar nomination slump, and Universal’s 2006 Oscar slate of The Good Shepherd and Children of Men.

Topics also include Washington’s aughts Tony Scott collaborations, whatever the hell is going on over at Gladiator 2, and the Streep/Gummer split.

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0:00.0	The right house.
0:03.0	I didn't get nominated.
0:15.0	Milled and heck.
0:17.0	And print. I'm from Canada water.
0:25.0	I'm from Canada water. Dick Poohop.
0:35.0	Pooh.
0:37.0	My name is Dalton Russell. Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself.
0:51.0	Recently I planned and set in motion events to execute the perfect bank robbery.
0:57.0	Everybody get down on the floor now!
1:00.0	Why? Because I can't.
1:04.0	Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast staring at that face on your face.
1:10.0	Every week on this had Oscar Buzz, we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had lofty Academy Award aspirations, but for some reason or another it all went wrong.
1:19.0	The Oscar hopes died and we're here to perform the autopsy. I'm your host, Chris Fyle, and I're here to perform the autopsy.
1:22.8	I'm your host, Chris Fyle, and I'm here as always with my Albanian propaganda vocalist
1:28.4	Joe Reed.
1:29.4	How dare you ask me to remove my clothes?
1:31.8	I will stand in defiance of you. I love that lady. What a good lady. She's like no you should be ashamed of yourself. I loved that. She's great. Justice for her. I deeply wanted her to turn up to be one of the
1:46.6	robbers at the very end. When you see at the end, like who some of the people actually were robbers? I wanted her to be one of them, but alas, she was not.
1:58.5	What a fun movie. What a fun movie this is. We'll get into it on the other side of all our other business, but I definitely want to talk about, so don't let me forget,
2:10.0	Spike Lee directing other people's screenplays, because it's a very small subset but like I think it's a very
2:16.1	He doesn't have an official Writers right. Hand in the screenplay.
2:23.0	I, he definitely had some retooling with this because it's so...
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