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Michael and Us

#540 - Power and Illusion

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In Akira Kurosawa's KAGEMUSHA (1980), a lowly thief is recruited to impersonate a feudal warlord, and he almost gets away with it. This mighty epic gives us opportunity to ponder the role of illusion in maintaining power, and whether or not a lie will always be exposed. PLUS: Recapping the U.K. election, and hey, have you heard about this Joe Biden character? Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

Transcript

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0:00.0

Listen, I just want to tell you something that happened to me this week, a little story from my life,

0:17.7

and I think this will show you my sort of growing maturity, or maybe not, but

0:23.3

anyway, I've been writing an article on drive-in movie theaters, so I've been spending a little bit of

0:29.0

time at the Five Drive-in in Oakville, which is a neighboring city to Toronto, and I enjoy the Five-Drive-In a lot.

0:40.3

I love Drive-In movie theaters. I love the vibe. I love the energy. This week I was there to just, you know, get some quotes basically for the article.

0:45.5

And I thought, well, I'm going to stick around and watch Bad Boys ride or die, which I want to say is the

0:50.9

fourth entry in the Bad Boys franchise. The new one that's in theaters right now, right?

0:55.9

That's right.

0:56.5

So I'm watching this movie, and I'm pretty psyched for this movie.

1:00.3

I'm thinking, oh, man, my old friends, Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, these guys are some professionals.

1:05.7

These guys are going to deliver me some entertainment.

1:08.0

And as the movie's going along, you know, movies start late at the drive-in.

1:11.8

They start at 9.30. So it gets to be about 10-15, 10-30, maybe even 10-45. And I'm watching this movie,

1:18.8

which, I mean, I can't remember the third bad boys. I saw it. I can't remember it. But I'm

1:24.6

watching this movie and I think, this may be the third bad boys. It's not,

1:28.6

but it may be. It feels exactly the same to me. And the whole movie is moving along very

1:33.6

professionally. It's hitting all the beats. It's doing all the notes. You know, the lads on

1:38.0

screen, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, they're doing the bans. They're doing jokes and action.

1:44.5

And around 1045, I think, you know, I think I'd rather just go home.

1:48.7

And so I did.

1:50.7

It's like I wasn't enjoying myself.

1:53.9

And earlier in the day, I had watched an excellent gay porn film from the 1970s called Sex Demon.

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