Hello, my name's Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And this week, we're going weird because we're not talking about a white Caucasian male director.

We're actually going to do a...

We're going to three white Caucasian male directors. We're actually going to do a... We're going to do three white Caucasian male directors.

Oh, that's true.

And technically a Japanese one as well.

Yes.

Because we're going to be doing reappropriation in cinema.

For that, we're going to talk about mystery science theater three thousand in the movie,

What's Up Tiger Lily, and the journals of Gene Seaburg. Why did you want to do this subject, Will? Because this was all you. Um, that's a good question. I'm not quite sure. I think it's because I wanted to, uh, watch mystery science theaters three thousand the movie. Yes, it is. I know that when I was a kid, I think I was 11 years old when I rented Mystery Science

Theater 3,000 the movie from the video store. At that time, I think kids that age are really

excited in showing their superiority over things that adults have made. Like, if you can show a kid

so bad it's good movie, they can laugh at it because,

ha, why didn't Ed Wood know that the tombstone looked like it was made of cardboard?

I'm smarter than him.

I'm 11 years old.

And mystery science theater of the movie really kind of flattered that sense in me.

But seeing it as a kid, it was an utterly mind-blowing experience. So is this the first iteration of the MST3K concept that you saw? Yes, it was, because we didn't get the TV show on TV in

Canada. Later, I would see it on VHS for sale. But yeah, this MST3K, the movie was at video stores. But let's talk first about

a movie that really gave birth to the whole making fun of bad movies concept in film

and reappropriating bad movies to create something new. That would be What's Up Tiger

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