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Casa Blanca

Hey everybody, welcome to unspooled. I am Paul Sheer. I'm Amy Nicholson. And this is the podcast where for the last

99 episodes we have watched one film from the AFI's top 100 greatest films of all time list the 2007 edition to see if they are really as good as people say do they hold up and how have they influence the films that we watch now. Today we'll be talking about Casa Blanca. But before we get into that we are going to talk a little bit about last week's film butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Now this is officially our last episode of season one.

We're going to be branching off into season two but before we do that we want to make sure that you tune in next week for a big recap episode we're going to be breaking down the list what we thought about it it's going to be a big celebration of the AFI list as we prepare to move on but we'll tell you a little bit more about that at the end of the episode Amy what do people think about butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid I mean does it belong on the list should be kicked off.

Well people like butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid I got a lovely email from my aunt and uncle who really love butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid but a lot of people said you know sure but I think it needs to stack up against the thing and said like the preferred movie from this team.

By a large margin of people and so I think that is one more entry point into everything we're going to be doing in season two which is.

Going big with it and also granular with it what are the stuff that we have on this list that we like and what can we maybe replace with something slightly better a conversation we've been having all the way back since swing time.

Well I think a lot of people also really connected with our discussion about how butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid represented the end of an era right this idea that new things are coming technology whatever it might be like the death of the old of the old Western even.

And so I felt like we got a lot of props for having that reading as many people also had that same reading for me I think the choice is really.

The sting or slap shot what would you put on the list I mean handsome brothers or Jackie Gleason I mean your choice.

Well you know that my heart is with Ben Alconner who wrote in listen if we are going to do a William Goldman film there are so many Westerns if we want to film that really plays around the genre tropes and something to say about the clash of romantic and modern sensibilities that movie.

Is the princess bride I just saw that movie it was so good had all those different actors playing all those different roles yes that's what a movie usually is.

All right by the way Kip Mooney agreed with me that slap shot should be on the A.F.I. list I don't really know if I believe that but I do like slap shot.

This is actually really interesting we've had some very famous Twitter followers and one of the famous ones is the 520 bridge it's a bridge who has a personality in that bridge said that they really enjoyed but you can't see the sun dance kid couldn't listen through the bridge over the river quiet just kind of hit too close to home because obviously there's a little bit of bridge destruction there.

There is I wonder how the 520 bridge feels about a little movie called the general another bridge blowing up movie are we just so violent to bridges it does Jeff bridges know about this should we do the bridges of Madison County for the second season if 520 bridge more don't spoil what our second season is going to be only bridge movies bridge over terabitia man who that movie.

Yeah.

And then let's finally get into our last comment from Marina Carlson she writes I really love the cinematography and I never thought I'd say this but the editing I saw a lot of very modern cuts in this film and I was surprised to see a movie from 1969.

We saw the fun biking montage for example with a modern song which feels like a template that's been used over and over again even it's like 21 jump street.

The one thing I need to talk about for at least three hours is the fact that our three leads are a straight up.

Thruple I've got some major homo erotic vibes coming from this movie and I got the feeling that this was a 1000% 3 way couple what do you think Amy was it a thruple.

Well I don't know about that but I think the movie does establish that maybe there's nothing wrong of one person can't satisfy all of your needs what if you need one person to laugh with and one person to make you undress while you're incredibly nervous.

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