Hello, my name is Justin A Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan, and you're listening to

The Important Cinema Club. And today, we're talking about Danny DeVito, the director.

Before we start, can I ask, have you seen him drunk on the view?

Of course I have multiple times. Of course you have.

Where he's doing the press circuit for Deck the Halls. Which is probably one of the last

Danny DeVito starring vehicles, right? And he gets very active, I guess, on the show. Didn't he say

he slept in the Lincoln bedroom with his wife and we made use of every surface. And I think he

says that he got drunk with George Clooney the night before, which is why he's hammered on the show.

But listen, we're not here to talk about his acting, which I love. I love Danny DeVito as an actor.

Or his talk show appearances, which I also love. Or his politics, which are good. Good. He was a big Bernie guy of the last election, right? And also, before he started recording, I said that I seen, like, post about him going to socialist authors and, like, asking them questions and being very active in that kind of stuff. And also, he is the author of the famous Antonin Scalia, retire bitch, tweet.

Oh, really? Yeah. Are you familiar with that tweet? Ah, vaguely. He created a meme format with that.

Antonin and Scalia, retire bitch. I think it was 10 years ago that he posted that. What a legend.

But we're here to talk about a, I guess, slice of his career that doesn't get mentioned that much.

His work as a director.

And why are we talking about Danny DeVito director?

I think that his films are kind of visually inventive in a way you don't see very often in those types of comedy.

When you watch a director like Tim Burton or Terry Gilliam, they have very distinct visual

styles, but they are outliners when you usually discuss comedies.

Or someone like Edgar Wright, for example.

But then Danny DeVito, like, if you watch his films and you can almost always go,

oh, that's a Danny DeVito film.

Right.

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