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433. Ander’s Sons: Bottle Rocket

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Comedy

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Episode 2 of our new deep-dive podcast that chronicles the films of Paul Thomas Anderson and Wes Anderson! This time the sons take a look at Wes Anderson’s buddy comedy debut Bottle Rocket which follows two bumbling criminals as they make their way through a “70 year plan” of heists. Our hosts look at the story structure, character archetypes, visual aesthetic of the film as well as compare it to Paul Thomas Anderson’s debut, Hard Eight. Abe doesn’t like it, surprising no one! Features: Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans Check our store to buy Small Beans merch! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-small-beans-store?ref_id=22691

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0:00.0

Two grizzled podcasters stare out at a grey sea and four by three aspects ratio.

0:29.5

Good crop today, I don't know, I was trying to do like a lighthouse thing.

0:36.8

Oh right, right, right. It's I mean bad luck to podcast about a seabird. I don't know.

0:44.3

You like my lobster? You like my lobster? Yeah, yeah, I didn't, you know, it's fine.

0:52.0

Lobsters fine. It's fine. It's mostly a conveyance for the butter and also world both slowly going

0:57.9

insane on this island. But I know that wasn't it. We'll find it because I will say I'm really

1:04.6

happy that we found on Kings of King that it starts with a song parody almost, you know, 80% of the time

1:09.3

at least. Right. And that's a good thing. And I didn't want to just use that. I don't want that

1:14.7

convention to bleed into this show, but haven't thought about it yet, but we're better than this.

1:20.4

You're better than this. Yes, we'll think of something better next time. We'll keep trying

1:23.9

until Andersson's has its own thing. That wasn't as you got evolved. Yeah, you as an artist

1:29.1

have to evolve. And I support you in this. But forget that. Pretend the podcast started right now.

1:35.6

Hey, everyone. It's me, Michael Swame sitting across from my best pal here. Hey, I'm I'm a

1:42.2

bet person. And this is Andersson's where we chronologically cover the films of both PT and

1:47.9

Wes Anderson. They solely on that flimsy pun. And it is a deep dive podcast in the vein of a

1:56.0

book club, but about movies where we close read and try and mind these films for all their worth.

2:02.3

I'm Michael Swame now. No, I'm just trying to make it worse or worse.

2:07.2

And yet today we're talking about Wes Anderson's first feature film, Bottle Rocket,

2:13.0

based on an expanded short of the same name, which we won't be covering. And I didn't watch.

2:17.6

And I also hadn't seen Bottle Rocket before till today. And Abe, I got to say, I got some

2:25.5

problems with this movie, Abe. Yeah, you know, starting to feel like you were right when you were

2:30.1

like, it should just be about PT Anderson. Okay, okay. I wanted to worry. I'm glad you said this.

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