#425: Playing the Hits, Pt. 1 — The Stunt Man

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

While there are countless movies featuring the work of stunt performers, movies that center the experiences of those performers are much more rare, which is part of what motivated former stunt performer David Leitch to make the new THE FALL GUY. One of the standouts on that short list is Richard Rush’s 1980 genre oddity THE STUNT MAN, which uses the experience of its accidental-stuntie protagonist to blur the lines between post-Vietnam reality and moviemaking fantasy in fascinating, sometimes confounding ways. We talk through our interpretations of what it means and whether it works, and come to the conclusion that even when it doesn’t, Peter O’Toole’s performance as a diabolical director manages to hold it all together. Then in Feedback, our recent CHALLENGERS episode inspires a couple of listeners to share their alternate pairing ideas. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about THE STUNT MAN, THE FALL GUY, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to [email protected], or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time,
0:18.0	or time to visit your nam time.
0:21.4	Go on.
0:22.6	Play some other time.
0:23.8	Put your phone down.
0:24.7	Tombole.
0:26.4	Open for fun.
0:29.3	Terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org.
0:32.2	Hello, next picture show listeners.
0:35.1	Here's a friendly reminder that if you enjoy the next picture show,
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0:52.9	That's patreon.com slash next picture show. That's patreon.com slash next picture show.
0:57.3	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
1:01.2	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
1:07.8	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
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