Episode 120: The Hunt for Red October

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team explores the film's rich character web, the plot's constantly building tension, and how the story explores the theme of communication—including that famous language switch.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast for each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:13.7	Today, we are talking about The Hunt for Red October, the 1990 film directed by John McTiernan, written by Larry Ferguson, Donald E. Stewart,
0:23.2	based on the novel by Tom Clancy.
0:26.1	I'm joined by the Beyond Screenplay team, Trisha Array.
0:28.7	Hello, everyone.
0:30.0	Brian DeVille.
0:30.5	Hello, hello.
0:31.7	And Alex Galleros.
0:33.1	Hi.
0:33.9	So I am super excited to be talking about the Hunt for Red October, which if people remember, was number four on my top films of the 90s list.
0:44.4	It's just such a fun, good movie.
0:47.3	Like, it's just like, it's just a movie.
0:49.8	It's one of those movies that's a movie, you know what I mean?
0:52.3	Yeah.
0:53.3	I do.
0:54.6	It's a movie, you know what I mean? Yeah. I do. It's a movie.
0:56.6	It's like, I love a good spy thriller.
1:00.3	It's like epic.
1:01.2	It has all these like cool characters, all the pieces like come together and connect.
1:06.2	Hard to follow when you're like eight or nine or whatever the hell age I was when I first saw it.
1:11.6	Like I definitely didn't understand what was happening.
1:14.0	But I loved it.
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