#274: Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Twice, Pt. 2 — Nobody

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The new Bob Odenkirk-starring revenge thriller NOBODY could be read as commentary on the revenge thriller form, but that may be an overly generous reading — or it may just be because we’ve paired it this week with Steven Soderbergh’s THE LIMEY, which is much more overtly reflective about its fantasies of violence and retribution. After working through what did and didn’t work for us about NOBODY, we put it into conversation with THE LIMEY — and by extension the long cinematic tradition of the revenge movie — to discuss the films’ respective approaches to violence, motivation, and middle age, and how they use music and location work to different effect. Plus Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about THE LIMEY, NOBODY, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to [email protected], or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Your Next Picture Show: Scott: Michael Verhoeven’s THE NASTY GIRL Keith: Richard C. Sarafian’s VANISHING POINT Tasha: George Romero’s THE CRAZIES Outro music: Steve Lawrence, ‘I Gotta Be Me’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, next picture show listeners, Scott Tobias here.
0:03.3	My audio for the first 11 minutes or so of this episode is going to sound a little
0:07.3	jankier than usual.
0:09.0	There's an extremely complicated technical reason for this.
0:12.2	It's also possible that I failed to press record on my end of the conversation.
0:17.1	That's for you to decide.
0:18.8	Our apologies for the mishap.
0:21.9	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:25.6	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:32.3	We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:40.1	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie-to-week podcast devoted to a classic film
0:44.5	in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:47.5	I'm Keith Phipps here again with...
0:49.0	Tasha Robinson.
0:50.2	And Scott Tobias?
0:51.4	Genevieve is once again not with us this week because she is engaged in an extended
0:55.2	round of hand-to-hand combat.
0:57.7	On our previous episode, we talked about the Limey Steven Soderberg's meditative
1:01.3	revenge thriller from 1999.
1:03.4	This week we're going to bring in the movie that inspired that choice.
1:06.4	Nobody.
1:07.0	A new action movie starring Bob Odenkirk, and I'm still not used to that idea even after seeing the movie, and directed by Ilya Nyshola.
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