‘Argylle’ and the Death of the Winking Action Movie

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Sean and Amanda discuss the wildly unsuccessful elements of ‘Argylle,’ Matthew Vaughn’s meta spy thriller starring Bryce Dallas Howard and Sam Rockwell (1:00). Then, they try to contextualize it within what Sean has dubbed "wink action"—a subgenre of action that rose around the turn of the 2010s and has finally started to peter out (44:00). Finally, Sean is joined by Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Arcel to discuss ‘The Promised Land’ and the key creative differences between making movies in Hollywood and making movies internationally (1:20:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Arcel Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:24.3	I'm Sean Fennese! I'm Sean Fantasy.ese and Amanda Dobbins and this is the big picture a conversation
0:36.7	show about spies lies and the unsanitized later in this episode I'll be joined
0:41.0	by Mads Mikkelson and Nikolai Arsel, the star and writer director behind the
0:45.3	Promised Land, an absolutely rip-roaring historical epic that I highly recommend.
0:50.5	I hope you'll stick around for my conversation with them.
0:52.2	Second time for Mads
0:53.2	Mikkelsen on the podcast you may recall he came on for another round a few
0:56.3	years back. This time it was in person. Yeah. Amanda wow the energy
1:00.0	I know the power of Mads.
1:02.6	He is, Bob, you were sitting right next to me when we talked to Mads.
1:05.9	Describe it for me.
1:06.8	How was it?
1:07.8	Cool Com collected, one of the cooler people, just wanted to share his thoughts
1:11.2	about a lot of different things that weren't even the movie,
1:13.2	which was great. If you want to hear Mads being cool, stick around until after we're done. That being said,
1:18.7	I'm back from a week-long sojourn to the East Coast and meeting and greeting the people how was it we were
1:26.0	touring for the rewatchables and and men were coming up to me in the streets crying and
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