Chicago

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Amy & Paul shoot up 2002's darkly comic musical revival Chicago! They interrogate director Rob Marshall's choice to use rapid cuts over long takes, discuss how Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones contrast perfectly with each other, and revisit a time when Oscar voters were thirsty for any musicals at all. Plus: Some of the many parodies Chicago has inspired. Next week Unspooled continues our series on musicals with Lagaan! You can join the conversation for this series on the Unspooled Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/unspooledpodcast, and on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test, and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]!

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0:00.0	The year is 2002 and pop 6 Squish, uh-uh, Cicero podcast.
0:08.3	The movie Chicago.
0:11.1	Hello everyone and welcome to unspilled.
0:33.6	I'm Amy Nicholson and I'm Paul Sheeran.
0:35.5	This is a podcast where we are endeavoring to find the hundred greatest movies of all time
0:39.9	and when we do.
0:40.9	We are going to put them into outer space.
0:43.2	That is the truth.
0:44.2	We've already talked to an astronaut.
0:45.4	We know it's possible.
0:46.8	Right now we are visiting musicals and musicals where the music is a part of the story.
0:53.4	It's not just a performance element of the movie.
0:57.1	We have gone from nightmare before Christmas into Greece and now a giant classic Chicago.
1:06.4	This is one that you all asked for.
1:09.0	So I'm excited that we are jumping into another giant musical but also one that I think
1:14.8	people remember really fondly.
1:16.8	Yeah, Chicago is the musical that at the time was credited for bringing back the musical.
1:22.6	But when Chicago hit theaters people basically grabbed onto it.
1:26.2	It was the last bottle of water in the desert and they're like, can we bring the musical
1:30.8	back?
1:31.8	We've been through so many dark, dark years of musicals.
1:34.2	The post-Grease 2 years of the world in which musicals were not considered cool.
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